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MS10-102 - Important: Vulnerability in Hyper-V Could Allow Denial of Service (2345316) - Version:1.1

Posted on 13 January 2011

Important

Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V1.1 (January 12, 2011): Added an update FAQ to clarify that the update can only be installed on affected operating systems with the Hyper-V role enabled.Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. The vulnerability could allow denial of service if a specially crafted packet is sent to the VMBus by an authenticated user in one of the guest virtual machines hosted by the Hyper-V server. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to send specially crafted content from a guest virtual machine to exploit this vulnerability. The vulnerability could not be exploited remotely or by anonymous users.

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• MS10-102 - Version: 1.0
• MS10-102 - Version: 1.1

 

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